Pausanias () may refer to:
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Pausanias the Regent
Pausanias () was a Spartan regent and a general. In 479 BC, as a leader of the Hellenic League's combined land forces, he won a pivotal victory against the Achaemenid Empire in the Battle of Plataea. Despite his role in ending the Second Persia ...
, Spartan general and regent of the 5th century BC
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Pausanias of Sicily
Pausanias (Greek language, Greek: Παυσανίας; fl. 5th century BC) was a native of Sicily, Magna Graecia, who belonged to the family of the Asclepiadae and whose father's name was Anchitus. He was a physician, and an eromenos of the philosop ...
, physician of the 5th century BC, who was a friend of Empedocles
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Pausanias of Athens
Pausanias (; ; fl. c. 420 BC) was an ancient Athenian of the deme Kerameis, who was the lover of the poet Agathon.
Although Pausanias is given a significant speaking part in Plato's ''Symposium'', very little is known about him. Ancient anecdot ...
, lover of the poet Agathon and a character in Plato's ''Symposium'' c. 420 BC
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Pausanias (king of Sparta)
Pausanias () was the Agiad King of Sparta; the son of Pleistoanax. He ruled Sparta from 445 BC to 427 BC and again from 409 BC to 395 BC. He was the leader of the faction in Sparta that opposed the imperialist policy conducted by Lysander.
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, King of Sparta from 408 to 395 BC
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Pausanias of Macedon
Pausanias ( ) was king of the ancient Greek kingdom of Macedon for around a year, from 394/3 to 393/2. He was the son of Aeropus II and an unknown mother, but he did not succeed his father when Aeropus died in July or August 394/3 BC.Borza, Euge ...
, King of Macedon from 399 to 393 BC
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Pausanias (pretender)
Pausanias (Greek: Παυσανίας), also known as Pausanias the Pretender, was an ancient Macedonian who claimed the right the Macedonian throne around 360–359 BCE after the death of king Perdiccas III of Macedon. He was one of at least three ...
, pretender to the throne of Macedon in the 360s BC
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Pausanias of Orestis
Pausanias of Orestis () was a member of Philip II of Macedon's personal bodyguard (''somatophylakes''). He assassinated Philip in 336 BC. Pausanias was killed while fleeing the assassination.
Family background
"About this time it was that ...
, bodyguard who assassinated Philip II of Macedon in 336 BC
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Pausanias of Damascus
Pseudo-Scymnus is the name given by Augustus Meineke to the unknown author of a work on geography written in Classical Greek, the ''Periodos to Nicomedes''. It is an account of the world (''wikt:periegesis, periegesis'') in 'comic' iambic trimeters ...
, Greek historian of the last quarter of the 2nd century BC
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Pausanias (geographer)
Pausanias ( ; ; ) was a Greek traveler and geographer of the second century AD. He is famous for his '' Description of Greece'' (, ), a lengthy work that describes ancient Greece from his firsthand observations. ''Description of Greece'' provide ...
, Greek traveller, geographer, and writer (''Description of Greece'') of the 2nd century AD
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Pafsanias Katsotas
Pafsanias Katsotas (, 1896 – 14 February 1991) was a Hellenic Army general and politician.
Biography
Katsotas was born in the village of Stamna in Aetolia-Acarnania in 1896. He graduated from the Hellenic Army Academy in 1916 as an Infantr ...
(1896-1991), Greek general and mayor of Athens
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